The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-24

Churchill has published a letter in which
he states his reasons for resiEning. TWAS
because he desired to promote efficiency
and economy in the Government, and
he predicts disasters to the country un-
less the administrative checks in use up
to 1874 are resumed. There was no
check now to Unauthorized expenditure.
Gladstone thinks this letter does credit
to Churchill, and promises that he shall
have a chance to hold up the standard
OF economy in Parliament.
The Earl OF Iddesleigh died suddenly
at Lord Salisbury's official residence,
Downing street, on the 18th. He had
refused the Office OF Lord Privy Seal
offered him by Salisbury and retired
with q sense Of iII-treatmcnt 1t is be-
Ieved that this fastened his death,
which resulted from heart disease. Lord
Iddeseigh was better known as Sir Stat
ford Northcote. Hon. Henry Stafford
Northcote, a son OF the deceased peer,
resigned the Master Generalship of the
Ordnance, yielding 81 800 ($7,500)
year, owing to the treatment his father
received at Salisbury's hands. When
Lord Salisbury failed to form Il Coalition
Cabinet, the dead Earl anticipated re-
ceiving the seals of the Foreign Office
again, but Salisbury kept them himself
and thought to shelye Lord Iddesleigh
by making him Lord Privy Seal. There
is considerable feeling in the Tory party
over this occurrence. Following are the
new members of the reconstructed Cab
met: Lord Salisbury, Secretary OF State
for Foreign Affairs w. II. Smith, First
Lord of the Treasury; q. J. GOschen,
Chancellor of the Exchequer; Edward
Stanhope, Secretary OF State for War,
and Sir Henry Holland, Secretary of
State for the Colonies. There is no
change in the other Cabinet officers.
The French are having sharp fighting
in Tonquin, on the Chinese frontier. In
one action where small garrison was
attacked and put to the sword after
several days fighting, the pirates were
| reinforced by large number OF Chinese
regulars. 1t will require large force to
preserve the peace in that region.
The United States has negotiated d
treaty with China which will entirely
prevent the introduction of Chinese
coolies. a bill to INCORPORATE the Mica
ragua Canal Company has been intro
duced by Senator Edmunds. Asiatic
cholera has broken out in Montevideo.
1t is travelling north towards Panama.
! Dynamite cartridges have been ex-
ploded under passing street cars on the
cable roads of San Francisco, doing con
siderable damage. These outrages are
laid to the account of the striking car
| operatives on the lines in question.
4 reward of 81 900 has been offered by
one company The United States Sen
ate has passed the Interstate Commerce
bill against the combined strength of the
railroad monopolies. Henry George has
| published trenchant attack upon Arch
bishop Corrigan of New York, in which
he charges that this high ecclesiastic
took part in the last election for the pur-
! pose OF defeating a certain candidate,
and also to defeat the call for Consti-
tutionaI Convention The Tablet" will
reply to Georges attack upon "The
Catholic Church, it's hierarchy, its
priests and people" There is political
crisis in Canada, and Parliament has
! been dissolved